Works In Paris: RADIGUET, ra-de-ge, Raymond, French poet and novelist: b. Parc-de-St.-Maur, near Paris, June 18, 1903; d. Paris, Dec. 12, 1923. He began as a poet whose works in paris, Les Joues en feu (1920) and Devoirs de vacances (1921), were in somewhat the same orthodox style as the earlier works in paris of Jean Cocteau, whose protege he became.
"For ome time he had had the ambition to create a collection if all that which both in Paris and its surroundings was iristic and picturesque," wrote his friend Andre Cal-nettes.29 Photographe d'art, photographer of works in paris of it, he called himself, and he hand lettered the sign "Doc-iments pour artistes" for the door of his fifth-floor apart-nent-darkroom at 31 rue Campagne Premiere. A great leal of his work was photographing the historic buildings if Paris in detail. He made a series of photographs of iron pill work, another of the fountains of Paris.
Richelieu was a voluminous writer; his most important works in paris may be consulted in Memoires sur la regne de Louis XIII (in Collection Pe-titot, Paris 1823 et seq.) ; Memoire d'Armand du Plessis de Richelieu, eveque de Lufon, ecrit de sa main, I'annee 1607 ou 1610, edited by Baschet, A. (Paris 1880) ; Lettres, instructions, diplomatiques, etc., edited by Avenal, G. d" (8 vols., Paris 1853-77) ; Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (Amsterdam 1687).
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